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Introduction to the special issue on medically unexplained symptoms: background and future directions

Richard J BrownClin Psychol Rev 27:769-80. 2007

..A separate overview of the literature on MUS in children and adolescents is provided by Eminson [Eminson, J. (2007-this issue). Medically unexplained symptoms in children and adolescents. Clinical Psychology Review]...

Should conversion disorder be reclassified as a dissociative disorder in DSM V?

..e., pseudoneurological symptoms) are poorly understood. This study evaluated recent theoretical predictions regarding the role of tactile perception in the development of somatoform dissociative symptoms...

..e. somatization disorder (SD)], although there are few empirical data attesting to this assumption. A study was therefore conducted to compare levels of non-hypnotic suggestibility in patients with SD and medical controls...

Attention to the body in nonclinical somatoform dissociation depends on emotional state

..Possible psychological mechanisms underlying these phenomena are then discussed, with particular emphasis on the nature of compartmentalization in conversion disorder, hypnosis, dissociative amnesia and dissociative identity disorder...

Dissociation, childhood interpersonal trauma, and family functioning in patients with somatization disorder

..correct rejection trials. We argue that our results provide evidence for the role of top-down regions in somatic misperception, consistent with findings from studies in humans and non-human primates...

Now you feel it, now you don't: how robust is the phenomenon of illusory tactile experience?

..In addition, a strong relationship was found between the rates of illusory sensations that participants produced in successive sessions, indicating that the tendency to report illusory sensations is a robust phenomenon...

Medically unexplained symptom reports are associated with a decreased response to the rubber hand illusion

..This work demonstrates that internal and external body-focused attention can have opposite effects on subsequent somatic perceptual decision making and suggests that attentional training could be useful for patients reporting MUS...

Vision of the body increases interference on the somatic signal detection task

..This suggests that psychogenic and organic dystonia have different cortical and subcortical pathophysiology, while a derangement in mechanisms of motor attention may be a feature of both conditions...

..The syndrome of fixed dystonia includes both CRPS-dystonia and psychogenic dystonia. The underlying mechanisms are unclear, but a high prevalence of neuropsychiatric illness has previously been reported...

Comparison of two types of dissociation in epileptic and nonepileptic seizures